Topic: List your jobs - What HAVE you done for a lviing?

[ElCheapo]

Not in any order: Many times one or another lumps over on another....

1. Restaurant Line Cook
2. Dish washer
3. Tire and Lube Monkey (no jokes needed there)
4. Disc Jockey (KHWK Tonopah, NV)
5. Business owner many times over
6. Bouncer
7. Skate Instructor for Skate Time School programs - Like Roller skates
8. ASE MASTER CERTIFIED Automotive Technician (for many big name tire shops and Dealerships)
9. Store manager and eventually  a District Manager for Terrible's Lube in Las Vegas, NV
10. Portrait Photographer
11. Mix Truck Driver - 3 seasons
12. Concrete Finisher
13. Piece work Framer
14. Rough Carpenter
15. Finish Capenter
16. Roofer
17. Foundry - Knock off, Herman, and pouring.
18. IT Support Technician - Went on to get Microsoft Certified
19. Assembly Line
20. Waiter - God I HATED THAT JOB
21. All around household repair (journeyman I guess) Plumbing, Electrical, Framing, whatever it was, we did it.
22. HVAC Certified Repaired Technician
23. Locksmith
24. Apartment Maintenance - Best bennie was free rent 
25. Carnie -Tilt-a-Whirl was the game 
26. Motorcycle courier - California
27. Pettybone operator

28. USMC Scout Sniper/ EOD Tech

Recently - Home Grown Motorcycle Mechanic and Parts Dealer.

[ProTeal55]

Hi Tom 

In no real order :
1. Mailroom clerk
2. Retail sales for the "kakai pant/blue polo shirt" guys
3. Harley Davidson new bike sales
4. Harley Davidson Dealer rep
5. Lexus detail manager
6. Heavy Duty Class 3-8 New truck sales / fleet management
7. Digital print account adminstrator (ever seen the movie Office Space ?)
8. Promotions rep for Mt.Dew (got to drive AM General Hummer H1's !)
9. Semi-Pro skateboarder for about 10 years (kinda was a job)

[Troy R]

If memory serves correct. 1 Auto Trader photograher/ delivery
                                    2 Restaurant cook/waiter/bar tender
                                    3 Dj at several area bars
                                    4 Auto detailer/repair/bodywork
                                    5 new and used auto sales Honda/Toyota/Suzuki/huyndai
                                    6 Auto dealer service/ parts and warranty
                                    7 Fish cutter for restarant (halibut)
                                    8 Forklift operator on industreal racking job
                                    9 all sorts of odd jobs
                                    10 presently salesman for autoparts store chain/and
                                    11 owner operator of a billiards sales and service company
                                   

I've probably forgotten a few but it's all cars/food/and sales. Ohh well what a life.
 

[ElCheapo]

I missed Body Shop Slave, fork lift driver for Toro and Tow Truck Driver 

[kghost]

Here goes.......

1. News paper delivery
2. Janitor
3. Farm hand
4. Construction (prefab metal building erection)
5. Mechanic (heavy vehicle maintenance)
6. Tree Planter (British columbia Canada)
7. Mechanic (cranes)
8. Crane operator
9. Dishwasher to account manager (Marriott corp)
10. Auto Mechanic / Fabricator
11. Body and paint shop automotive restoration specialist
12. Aircraft mechanic (Alaska)
13. Flight instructor
14. Cargo pilot
15. Corporate pilot (Billion Dollar Corp.)
16. Airline Director of maintenance
17. Airline chief pilot
18. Pilot / Captain - Douglas DC-3, Fairchild SA-227, Convair CV-240, 340, 440, Convair CVA340, CVA440, Dassault Mystere DA-20, Boeing 727

Been fortunate to live a diverse life. Been to 5 continents and lived in 6 different countries. From the Artic circle to tierra del fuego.
Lucky to have a job doing something I would do for free. Peace.

[ElCheapo]

This proves the idea that I have that we are VERY FLEXIBLE people. This is a good thing. Learn just about anything on the fly. 

[nickjtc]

1.   Odd-job boy, construction site
2.   Apprentice optician
3.   Optician
4.   Sole proprietor, optical dispensary
5.   Adult instructor/officer Air Training Corps
6.   Lens and lab rep for a multi national lens manufacturer
7.   Optometric assistant
8.   In-office optometric assistant coach/trainer
9.   Facilitator of programmes for separated/divorced adults
10. Facilitator of a programme for children of separated/divorced parents
11. Slash burner
12. Motorcycle riding instructor
12. Motorcycle rider examiner
13. Parts/service counterperson, Polaris dealership
14. Driver examiner

PS. Welcome back, Tom.

[KCs76Cafe]

Dishwasher...2 days
Service Station attendant
Construction worker
Material Handler at plastic injection molding plant
Several different jobs at furniture plant
Sound and Light Technician for Rock Band
Several different jobs at Black&Decker
Grocery Selector at Harris Teeter Distribution
Welder......Mickey Truck Bodies
and now welding for Kaufman Trailers

maybe in order and might have forgotten a few in my hazed over days  

[ElCheapo]

Hey I forgot one. I had to work as a Service Station Attendant also. Funny shyt I had to make change in my head and wear a change belt because the owner was too cheap to get a register. Plus this was full serve. Thankfully it was short lived, like 2 months. And NO I did not wear a little bow tie 

GEEZE I think I did about everything. I even worked as a ranch hand for a short time in Texas. No nones back was broken and no mountains to be found. Was in 95 during the big Rabies scare.

[KCs76Cafe]

Yeah Tom........my service station attendant job sucked too. It was full serve if you wanna call it that. The place use to be self serve but the owners figured they would make more money pumping gas,checking/adding oil/tranny fluid. It was an island with 8 pumps and a glass booth in the middle. Froze my butt off in the winter. What got me was the idiots that came up and wanted $1 worth of gas, check their oil/tranny fluid and bring them a pack of Newports....and had a LOCKING GAS CAP!!!!!!!!!!      

Being a Scout Sniper must have been cool. I must have been one in a past life......its about all I study.

[ElCheapo]

Yeah Tom........my service station attendant job sucked too. It was full serve if you wanna call it that. The place use to be self serve but the owners figured they would make more money pumping gas,checking/adding oil/tranny fluid. It was an island with 8 pumps and a glass booth in the middle. Froze my butt off in the winter. What got me was the idiots that came up and wanted $1 worth of gas, check their oil/tranny fluid and bring them a pack of Newports....and had a LOCKING GAS CAP!!!!!!!!!!      

Being a Scout Sniper must have been cool. I must have been one in a past life......its about all I study.

I near lost it on the locking cap 

[GoatBaSS]

No order implied or recalled. List does not indicate skill or competentcy:
Salvage Yard
Camp Counselor
Courrier
Janitor
Busboy
Prep cook
Line cook
Grill cook
Fry Cook
Waiter
Bartender
Pool Bar Boy Friday
Insurance
Landscaping
Collections
Shipping and Recieving Warehouse Mgr.
Photo Cataloguing
Customer Service Mgr.
Pawn shop custodian/warden
Hot Air balloon crew chief
Good thing I am in school now...

[siter81]

Dishwasher
Salad prep person
Cook
Sailboat tooler and final finisher
USN Hull tech
Welder
Body and paint man
Cable tv installer
Cable tv service tech
Fiber optics/system tech cable tv.Present occupation.


Siter81     

[ElCheapo]

Hi Tom 
9. Semi-Pro skateboarder for about 10 years (kinda was a job)

You might know my brother, he was semi pro for a time. Tony Johnson, Old School freestyle long border. I know different names. Long story.............

[seaweb11]

car washer
dishwasher
busboy
cook
ski instructor
tree topper
Non Destructive Testing (raw cobalt) ex-rays of welds in pulp mills:o
waiter
Bar Tender
Courier
Furniture mover
Extra
Stunt person
Actor
Bouncer
Furniture Sales
Trampoline sales
Sales mgr.
self employed Retail Recreation Store owner
self employed Franchiser
self employed Publisher
self employed Web Master

*semi retired My 46th Birthday is tomorrow 

[bill440cars]

         Janitorial service
         Wheeled Vehicle Mech (Air Force)
         Jet acft,1 & 2 eng crew chief (F4c Phantom and later, the F106, Air Force)   
         Full time gas station attendant, grave shift ((off time while in the Air Force)
         Build motor short blocks (at an engine rebuilders)
         Line mechanic at a VW dealership
         Vehicle mechanic (Civil Service)
         Power generation mechanic (Civil Service)
         Direct Support mechanic (replacing major components and going into motors, drivelines and
                                            such,Civil Service)
         Equipment Inspector (to include any & all types of Army Equipment & weapons, Civil Service)
         Drove a "Roll Off" Truck
         Shipping & receiving supervisor at a GMC dealership
         Care Giver for Folks with "Special Need" (various handicaps and disabilities to include cerebral
                                                                  palsy
         That about covers it so far, except for the Army Reserve time and the training I received on
         the latest military vehicles such as the military version of the Freight Liners, HEMMT, 5ton trucks
         with tire inflation and deflation system controlled from inside the trucks, the M113A3, The Bradley
         Fighting Vehicle and the Hummer (military versions of the HUMVEE). 

                                                              Later on,  Bill

[ElCheapo]

Bill the F4 Phantoms were among my favorite planes. The only thing I think I like better it the A-10 

HEY!!!
Nobody said Porn Star, but Terry has not listed yet 

[bill440cars]

Bill the F4 Phantoms were among my favorite planes. The only thing I think I like better it the A-10 

       The A-10s are pretty awesome for their use as "Tank Destroyers". The Air National Guard, in Ft. Smith, is supposed to lose their F-16s and gain A-10s but, I'm not sure when. I'm pretty partial to several planes ( mostly older Jets like: the F4 Phantom, F104 Star Fighter, B-58 Hustler, F14 Tomcat )
For those who don't know, but might care, the first 3 (F4, F104 and the B58 all used J79 engines. the F104 used 1, the F4 used 2 and the B58 used 4. Of course they were slightly different versions for each application. You should see an F4 that goes to the "trim pad" ( a place to secure the plane and sun the engines up to adjust them out). The plane is secured by dropping the tailhook and attaching a huge chain to it and once, over in Japan, my buddy and I went to the trim pad with an F4 along with an engineman. My buddy took his camera and the engineman told my buddy that he would give him something worthwhile to take pictures of. He opened up the left engine to full military power and back to idle. Then he did the right engine the same way. Then, he gave my buddy the signal and opened up both engines to full military power and on into Afterburner for a couple of minutes (that seemed like forever!) before shutting them down. I have to tell you, that F4 was straining that chain, the concrete pad was vibrating, the flames, from the afterburner, were awesome and I remember thinking,"If that sucker came loose, it would be half way across Japan before it could be stopped!" I just wish that I'd gotten some copies of those pictures! I know the newer planes are far more sophisticated but, I guess the F4 is kinda like the SOHC4s, you know?
By the way, I also am fond of the B-52.
                                                Later on, Bill

[seaweb11]

HEY!!!
Nobody said Porn Star, but Terry has not listed yet

Ha, tooooo funny, I forgot one. I worked at a place called the Tropicana on Sunset Blvd as a stripper while I was going to Stunt School in LA , I was 20.  Amazing how some stuff you let slip from memory   Came out in a Gorilla suit to the tune Guitarzan!!!!

The bar is still going strong, ladies night 7 days a week last time I visited  LA with the Wife

what do I win for honesty Cheapo?

[toycollector10]

Aged 14 I used to mow lawns for about 20 cents an hour,

Then...

Aged about 16 to 18 I was a casual wharf labourer (seagull) during my school holidays and that was big money. Stacking 40 lb cases of apples 7 high in Pommy freezer ships eight hours a day...cold and hard work..Kept me in surfboards, wetsuits, beer and gas money for the rest of the year...(used to have a six pack)..then..

Chipping rust out of the guts of coastal freighters...also big money ($150 a week)

[kghost]

There was a reason they called the F4 Phantom II the Rhino 

J79 was sure a cool engine. So much for brakes when you could lock them ..run the engines up...and still take off.

Sure is funny how many folks in Aviation don't look at it as a "real job". 

[oldbiker]

Trainee draughtsman (Jig and tool)
ditto (structural steelwork)
Royal Air Force 8 years
Television repair
Draughtsman (Triumph Motorcycles)
Motorcycle Shop Manager
Uni Student
College Lecturer

[RatBikeRandy]

Fairly Diverse -
Lawn maintenance
Burger cook
False teeth finisher and delivery - After school job $2.00/hr under the table, but a great job.
Pizza delivery ( Domino's )
Several Domino's store management jobs
Venereal Disease Investigator (Seriously - new job title is Public Health Advisor)  Centers for Disease  Control - CDC, Chicago.
Insurance Agent
Parts Warehouse - Worker
Pars Distribution - Manager

[ieism]

Nice collection of jobs here. We pretty much have all bases covered here, all we need now is a:

Beer Brewer! 
Egg sorter
Supermarket manager
Carpenter
Graphic designer
Mail delivery guy
DJ
Avocado picker
Banana picker
Gardener
Machine Operator (push a button all day)
Production leader for music festival
Barman
Painter (houses)
Deckhand on sailingship

That's about all I remember. When you get to be my age, you tend to forget stuff (i'm 30 ) 

[nuke]

well, lets test the ol' noggin' for memory
its starts like this......
mall parking lot sweeper
newspaper delivery
propane attendant
partsboy for Artic Cat and Kimpex
pizza delivery
pizza cook
dollar store cash dude
grocery store clerk
vegetable sales out of a truck on corner of street
military reservist
golf course greenskeeper
warehouse picker/reciever/shipper/forklift driver
warehouse supervisor
industrial safety supply salesman
branch ass manager
COLLEGE(@26)
carpet salesman
telemarketer
warehouse Pepsi
beffet waiter
warehouse Coke (pepsi is better)
knife sales
Industrial Maintenance Mechanic (Millwright) @ Power plant